Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley introduce a new format for the Hush podcast — a roundtable discussion with our guests around an engaging and interesting topic — books nominated for the William Allen White Award.

Books mentioned

The boy who invented TV: the story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull

Extra credit by Andrew Clements

All the broken pieces: a novel in verse by Ann E Burg

The Great Death by John E Smelcer

Years of dust: the story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin

Read more about the current nominees for 3rd-5th grade and 6th-8th grade on the William Allen White award website.

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Frindle by Andrew Clements

The Devil’s Donkey, Baseball Fever, and The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Swindle by Gordon Korman

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Your turn to talk

Continue the conversation about books that have been nominated for the William Allen White award. Why do you like them? What can you recommend? Talk to us here on the blog, or on the library’s Goodreads group at our William Allen White discussion.

Thad

Lissa

If you have questions, comments or suggestions for future topics please comment on our blog post or send us an email at asktscpl@tscpl.org

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Lissa Staley helps people use the library. She is a Book Evangelist, Health Information Librarian, Arts & Crafts Librarian, Trivia Emcee, Classics Made Modern book group leader, and frequent library customer, especially with her children. She reads a new book every few days, but recently loved Adorkable by Sarra Manning, Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman and Tin Star by Cecil Castellucchi.